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42 U.S.C. § 294t — Programs to promote mental health among the health professional workforce

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42 U.S.C. § 294t — Programs to promote mental health among the health professional workforce

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**(a) Programs to promote mental health among health care professionals** (1) **In general** — The Secretary shall award grants or contracts to health care entities, including entities that provide health care services, such as hospitals, community health centers, and rural health clinics, or to medical professional associations, to establish or enhance evidence-based or evidence-informed programs dedicated to improving mental health and resiliency for health care professionals. (2) **Use of funds** — An eligible entity receiving a grant or contract under this subsection shall use funds received through the grant or contract to implement a new program or enhance an existing program to promote mental health among health care professionals, which may include— (A) improving awareness among health care professionals about risk factors for, and signs of, suicide and mental health or substance use disorders, in accordance with evidence-based or evidence-informed practices; (B) establishing new, or enhancing existing, evidence-based or evidence-informed programs for preventing suicide and improving mental health and resiliency among health care professionals; (C) establishing new, or enhancing existing, peer-support programs among health care professionals; or (D) providing mental health care, follow-up services and care, or referral for such services and care, as appropriate. (3) **Priority** — In awarding grants and contracts under this subsection, the Secretary shall give priority to eligible entities in health professional shortage areas or rural areas. **(b) Training grants** The Secretary may establish a program to award grants to health professions schools, academic health centers, State or local governments, Indian Tribes or Tribal organizations, or other appropriate public or private nonprofit entities (or consortia of entities, including entities promoting multidisciplinary approaches) to support the training of health care students, residents, or health care professionals in evidence-based or evidence-informed strategies to address mental and substance use disorders and improve mental health and resiliency among health care professionals. **(c) Grant terms** A grant or contract awarded under subsection (a) or (b) shall be for a period of 3 years. **(d) Application submission** An entity seeking a grant or contract under subsection (a) or (b) shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may require. **(e) Reporting** An entity awarded a grant or contract under subsection (a) or (b) shall periodically submit to the Secretary a report evaluating the activities supported by the grant or contract. **(f) Authorization of appropriations** To carry out this section and section 5 of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, there are authorized to be appropriated $35,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2024.

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42 U.S.C. § 293b — Loan repayments and fellowships regarding faculty positions

**(a) Loan repayments** (1) **Establishment of program** — The Secretary shall establish a program of entering into contracts with individuals described in paragraph (2) under which the individuals agree to serve as members of the faculties of schools described in paragraph (3) in consideration of the Federal Government agreeing to pay, for each year of such service, not more than $30,000 of the principal and interest of the educational loans of such individuals. (2) **Eligible individuals** — The individuals referred to in paragraph (1) are individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who— (A) have a degree in medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, nursing, or another health profession; (B) are enrolled in an approved graduate training program in medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, nursing, or other health profession; or (C) are enrolled as full-time students— (i) in an accredited (as determined by the Secretary) school described in paragraph (3); and (ii) in the final year of a course of a study or program, offered by such institution and approved by the Secretary, leading to a degree from such a school. (3) **Eligible health professions schools** — The schools described in this paragraph are schools of medicine, nursing (as schools of nursing are defined in [section 296 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section296&num=0&edition=prelim)), osteopathic medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, allied health, podiatric medicine, optometry, veterinary medicine, or public health, schools offering physician assistant education programs, or schools offering graduate programs in behavioral and mental health. (4) **Requirements regarding faculty positions** — The Secretary may not enter into a contract unde

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42 U.S.C. § 293a — Scholarships for disadvantaged students

**(a) In general** The Secretary may make a grant to an eligible entity (as defined in subsection (d)(1)) under this section for the awarding of scholarships by schools to any full-time student who is an eligible individual as defined in subsection (d). Such scholarships may be expended only for tuition expenses, other reasonable educational expenses, and reasonable living expenses incurred in the attendance of such school. **(b) Preference in providing scholarships** The Secretary may not make a grant to an entity under subsection (a) unless the health professions and nursing schools involved agree that, in providing scholarships pursuant to the grant, the schools will give preference to students for whom the costs of attending the schools would constitute a severe financial hardship and, notwithstanding other provisions of this section, to former recipients of scholarships under sections 293 and 293d(d)(2)(B) of this title (as such sections existed on the day before November 13, 1998). **(c) Amount of award** In awarding grants to eligible entities that are health professions and nursing schools, the Secretary shall give priority to eligible entities based on the proportion of graduating students going into primary care, the proportion of underrepresented minority students, and the proportion of graduates working in medically underserved communities. **(d) Definitions** In this section: (1) **Eligible entities** — The term “eligible entities” means an entity that— (A) is a school of medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, nursing (as defined in [section 296 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section296&num=0&edition=prelim)), pharmacy, podiatric medicine, optometry, veterinary medicine, public health, chiropra

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42 U.S.C. § 254n — Private practice

**(a) Application for release of obligations; conditions** The Secretary shall, to the extent permitted by, and consistent with, the requirements of applicable State law, release an individual from all or part of his service obligation under [section 254m(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section254m/a&num=0&edition=prelim) or under section 234 11 See References in Text note below. of this title (as in effect on September 30, 1977) if the individual applies for such a release under this section and enters into a written agreement with the Secretary under which the individual agrees to engage for a period equal to the remaining period of his service obligation in the full-time private clinical practice (including service as a salaried employee in an entity directly providing health services) of his health profession— (1) in the case of an individual who received a scholarship under the Scholarship Program or a loan repayment under the Loan Repayment Program and who is performing obligated service as a member of the Corps in a health professional shortage area on the date of his application for such a release, in the health professional shortage area in which such individual is serving on such date or in the case of an individual for whom a loan payment was made under the Loan Repayment Program and who is performing obligated service as a member of the Corps in a health professional shortage area on the date of the application of the individual for such a release, in the health professional shortage area selected by the Secretary; or (2) in the case of any other individual, in a health professional shortage area (designated under [section 254e of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim

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42 U.S.C. § 254m — Obligated service under contract

**(a) Service in full-time clinical practice** Except as provided in [section 254n of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section254n&num=0&edition=prelim), each individual who has entered into a written contract with the Secretary under section 254l or 254l–1 of this title shall provide service in the full-time clinical practice of such individual’s profession as a member of the Corps for the period of obligated service provided in such contract. The Secretary may treat teaching as clinical practice for up to 20 percent of such period of obligated service. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, with respect to a member of the Corps participating in the teaching health centers graduate medical education program under [section 256h of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section256h&num=0&edition=prelim), for the purpose of calculating time spent in full-time clinical practice under this section, up to 50 percent of time spent teaching by such member may be counted toward his or her service obligation. **(b) Notice to individual; information for informed decision; eligibility; notice to Secretary; qualification and appointment as commissioned officer; appointment as civilian member; designation of non-United States employee as member; deferment of obligated service** (1) If an individual is required under subsection (a) to provide service as specified in section 254l(f)(1)(B)(v) or 254l–1(f)(1)(B)(iv) of this title (hereinafter in this subsection referred to as “obligated service”), the Secretary shall, not later than ninety days before the date described in paragraph (5), determine if the individual shall provide such service— (A) as a member of the Corps who is a commissioned

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42 U.S.C. § 201 — Funding

Beginning with fiscal year 2010, the Secretary shall transfer from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund such sums as may be necessary to carry out this part.

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42 U.S.C. § 254q — Authorization of appropriations

**(a) Authorization of appropriations** For the purpose of carrying out this section,11 So in original. Probably should be “subpart,”. there is authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following: (1) For fiscal year 2010, $320,461,632. (2) For fiscal year 2011, $414,095,394. (3) For fiscal year 2012, $535,087,442. (4) For fiscal year 2013, $691,431,432. (5) For fiscal year 2014, $893,456,433. (6) For fiscal year 2015, $1,154,510,336. (7) For fiscal year 2016, and each subsequent fiscal year, the amount appropriated for the preceding fiscal year adjusted by the product of— (A) one plus the average percentage increase in the costs of health professions education during the prior fiscal year; and (B) one plus the average percentage change in the number of individuals residing in health professions shortage areas designated under [section 254f of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section254f&num=0&edition=prelim) during the prior fiscal year, relative to the number of individuals residing in such areas during the previous fiscal year. **(b) Scholarships for new participants** Of the amounts appropriated under subsection (a) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall obligate not less than 10 percent for the purpose of providing contracts for— (1) scholarships under this subpart to individuals who have not previously received such scholarships; or (2) scholarships or loan repayments under the Loan Repayment Program under section 254l–1 of this title to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. **(c) Scholarships and loan repayments** With respect to certification as a nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, or physician assistant, the Secretary shall, from amounts

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42 U.S.C. § 254p — Special loans for former Corps members to enter private practice

**(a) Persons entitled; conditions** The Secretary may, out of appropriations authorized under [section 254k of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section254k&num=0&edition=prelim), make one loan to a Corps member who has agreed in writing— (1) to engage in the private full-time clinical practice of the profession of the member in a health professional shortage area (designated under [section 254e of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section254e&num=0&edition=prelim)) for a period of not less than 2 years which— (A) in the case of a Corps member who is required to complete a period of obligated service under this subpart, begins not later than 1 year after the date on which such individual completes such period of obligated service; and (B) in the case of an individual who is not required to complete a period of obligated service under this subpart, begins at such time as the Secretary considers appropriate; (2) to conduct such practice in accordance with [section 254n(b)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section254n/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim); and (3) to such additional conditions as the Secretary may require to carry out this section. Such a loan shall be used to assist such individual in meeting the costs of beginning the practice of such individual’s profession in accordance with such agreement, including the costs of acquiring equipment and renovating facilities for use in providing health services, and of hiring nurses and other personnel to assist in providing health services. Such loan may not be used for the purchase or construction of any building. **(b) Amount of loan; maximum interest rate** (1) The amoun

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42 U.S.C. § 254r — Grants to State Offices of Rural Health

**(a) In general** The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (established under [section 912 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section912&num=0&edition=prelim)), shall make grants to each State Office of Rural Health for the purpose of improving health care in rural areas. **(b) Requirement of matching funds** (1) **In general** — Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary may not make a grant under subsection (a) unless the State office of rural health involved agrees, with respect to the costs to be incurred in carrying out the purpose described in such subsection, to provide non-Federal contributions toward such costs in an amount equal to $3 for each $1 of Federal funds provided in the grant. (2) **Waiver or reduction** — The Secretary may waive or reduce the non-Federal contribution if the Secretary determines that requiring matching funds would limit the State office of rural health’s ability to carry out the purpose described in subsection (a). (3) **Determination of amount of non-Federal contribution** — Non-Federal contributions required in paragraph (1) may be in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, including plant, equipment, or services. Amounts provided by the Federal Government, or services assisted or subsidized to any significant extent by the Federal Government, may not be included in determining the amount of such non-Federal contributions. **(c) Certain required activities** Recipients of a grant under subsection (a) shall use the grant funds for purposes of— (1) maintaining within the State office of rural health a clearinghouse for collecting and disseminating information on— (A) rural health care issues; (B) research findings relating to rural hea

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42 U.S.C. § 294s — Rural maternal and obstetric care training demonstration

**(a) In general** The Secretary shall award grants to accredited schools of allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, and nursing, and other appropriate health professional training programs, to establish a training demonstration program to support— (1) training for physicians, medical residents, fellows, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, certified nurse midwives, relevant home visiting workforce professionals and paraprofessionals, or other professionals who meet relevant State training and licensing requirements, as applicable, to reduce preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity by improving prenatal care, labor care, birthing, and postpartum care in rural community-based settings; and (2) developing recommendations for such training programs. **(b) Application** To be eligible to receive a grant under subsection (a), an entity shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. **(c) Activities** (1) **Training for health care professionals** — A recipient of a grant under subsection (a)— (A) shall use the grant funds to plan, develop, and operate a training program to provide prenatal care, labor care, birthing, and postpartum care in rural areas; and (B) may use the grant funds to provide additional support for the administration of the program or to meet the costs of projects to establish, maintain, or improve faculty development, or departments, divisions, or other units necessary to implement such training. (2) **Training program requirements** — The recipient of a grant under subsection (a) shall ensure that training programs carried out under the grant are evidence-based and address improving prenatal care, labor care, birthing

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42 U.S.C. § 202 — Definitions

When used in this chapter— **(a)** The term “Service” means the Public Health Service; **(b)** The term “Surgeon General” means the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service; **(c)** Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. **(d)** The term “regulations”, except when otherwise specified, means rules and regulations made by the Surgeon General with the approval of the Secretary; **(e)** The term “executive department” means any executive department, agency, or independent establishment of the United States or any corporation wholly owned by the United States; **(f)** Except as provided in sections 246(g)(4)(B),11 See References in Text note below. 247c(c)(1),1 254d(h)(3),1 263c(5),1 264(d), 292a(9),1 300a(c), 300f(13), and 300n(1) 1 of this title, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. **(g)** The term “possession” includes, among other possessions, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands; **(h)** Repealed. Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 986(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 603. **(i)** The term “vessel” includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water, exclusive of aircraft and amphibious contrivances; **(j)** The term “habit-forming narcotic drug” or “narcotic” means opium and coca leaves and the several alkaloids derived therefrom, the best known of these alkaloids being morphia, heroin, and codeine, obtained from opium, and cocaine derived from the coca

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